Seven years ago a teenage girl, Aarushi Talwar, was found murdered in
her bedroom in Noida, a middle-class suburb of Delhi. The body of the
prime suspect—the family servant, Hemraj—was discovered a day later. Who
had committed the double murders, and why? Within weeks, Aarushi’s
parents, the Talwars, were accused; four years later, they went on trial
and were convicted.
But did they do it?
Avirook Sen attended the trial, accessed important documents and
interviewed all the players—from Aarushi’s friends to Hemraj’s old boss,
from the investigators to the forensic scientists—to write a meticulous
and chilling book that reads like a thriller but also tells a story
that is horrifyingly true. Aarushi is the definitive account of a
sensational crime, and the investigation and trial that followed.